Ms.Lively receiving a WVPRSA Crystal Award for writing, editing and
production of Crossings – Bridge Building in West Virgina

Terry Lively, M.A., one of WV’s most creative and friendly filmmakers, will be ending her state government career at the end of this week. Congrats on a stellar career – and may she enjoy retirement as much as I have since Dec.2009.

Ms. Lively will continue to work in media via Vandalia Productions, a media design firm she founded ten years ago. I don’t know what plans she has for the immediate future but I do know that she was planning on creating a film about the history of public employees in West Virginia
for the WV Labor History Association. She has been working on lots of things, working fulltime at the state, teaching part-time at WVSU, and  more.
As she retires, and I retired last December, a new generation has taken over the WV Filmmakers Guild that she led for several years. A new generation, some taking filmmaking courses from Professor Lively at the state’s only film school at WVSU, will now be responsible for promoting
WV films and filmmakers – including the early pioneers including Ms. Lively. Hopefully, I will continue to write for the Charleston Gazette  about both the new and older filmmakers.

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